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A website with an entry for every archetypal plot device, plot event, plot hole, character, line of dialogue, theme, or musical device that has been thought of more than once which makes the name ever so slightly fuckingretarded. People commonly direct to this site when they want to explain an oft-used plot device or cliché to others—rather than explain it themselves in simple words.

Each entry has a brief description of the device, or "trope", wherein sometimes there are links to other tropes, which are Typically Capitalized. This is occasionally accompanied by a single image, which is the only image you will find in the entire entry, making this website Inferior To Uncyclopedia. The introduction is followed by a listing of every example the Hive Mind could find of that particular device in anime, comic books, film, live action television, literature, music, tabletop games, theatre, video games, webcomics, web-original content, Western animation, and real life. Tedious pop culture references and/or inside abbreviations are sure to be made, often without any explanation. Most tropers also appear to be unaware of the existence of what are called Discussion Pages.

In episode Yugi clearly lampshades the subverting, by averting the inverting, and then goes to play Winged Ass of Ra (romanji: Wingedu Ryou no Reha Desu) straight, even though it is heavily implied that Everyone is Bi

Slightly subverted with Harry Potter's cousin Dudley, who is known not to be a Troper.

Are you sure this shouldn't go to the Wild Mass Guess section?

It's Word Of God. Rowling herself appears to have mentioned it a few weeks ago.

What?! How has Sherlock Holmes not been mentioned?! This troper swears that he read somewhere about Sherlock Holmes maintaining a database of trite, overused criminal plots to save his deductive reasoning brainpower.

It's really more of a variation of Magical Database. But this troper thinks he's heard of it too.

This seems to be apocryphal. It may have appeared in fanfic.

A lost chapter of Douglas Adams' The Salmon of Doubt apparently was based on a series of random TV Tropes.